With this module, explore your interests in one of our four focus areas on International and European affairs, including issues such as conflict resolution approaches (terrorism, war, migration), the place of religion in the European public sphere, the Eurozone crisis, European identity and values, etc...
Most of courses are conducted by world-renowned International professors and researchers in their respective domains of expertise.
The course provides an overview of the state of the European Union in the 2020s. It begins with an introduction to the subject matter and the recent history of the European Union, beginning with the Lisbon Treaty, the Eurozone crisis, Brexit and Covid. Contemporary European integration is then examined through three lenses: European identity, democratic legitimacy and effectiveness. We then take a closer look at the case study of Brexit and how to interpret what it could mean for the European Union. Lastly, we examine prospects for the European Union over the next 30 years.
The Philosophical Construction of Europe and its Critics
In this course, we examine the philosophical construction of the idea of Europe during the Enlightenment, starting with the project of a European “republic” and the possibility of perpetual peace as articulated in the works of Castel de Saint Pierre, Voltaire, Gibbons and Kant. The course look at the ways that, during this period, the ideas of rationality and progress played key roles in shaping European consciousness and self-consciousness. We then turn to internal critiques of the European republic by thinkers such as Rousseau, and to imagined external perspectives, as presented by Montesquieu. With this idea of Europe in place, the course then turns to modern critiques from critical race theory and post-colonial thought, using thinkers such as Charles Mills, Edward Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. According to their critics, Europe's idea of itself is only possible by denying non-European countries and peoples the same possibility. This course therefore examines whether the idea of Europe has been bought at the price of economic domination, slavery and colonialism, and asks how Europe should deal with this legacy.
Europe and Violence
The course will look at Europe’s history of violence – political, social, colonial –, and its intellectual underpinnings. This is somewhat a paradox, as Europe also developed a strong theoretical and practical tradition of human rights, cosmopolitanism, and pacifism. How can we account for such a hiatus? We will look at the construction of the subject and otherness in modern European thought and investigate how it served both to found human rights and enable new forms of social and political violence.
The main purpose of the course is to provide students with the analytical tools and theoretical framework through which to critically evaluate and discuss the multiple meanings of religion and family ties in the migration experience.
With this goal in mind, the course aims to invite students to reflect on what "religion" is for states and what "religion" does for migrants and their families, that is, how religion and the migration experience mutually shape each other and play out in daily life both structurally and culturally.
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*The course offering is tentative and subject to change.
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CREDITS
35 hours of French language classes are also included.
Students will be able to validate 12 ECTS.
TEACHING METHODS
Interactive lectures, Case study, Projects, Research, Seminars.
ASSESSMENT
Students are assessed through participation to lectures, seminars and through dissertations on the courses they attended during the summer school.
PREREQUISITES
The student should know some basic notions of EU Affairs.
